The Parr Street Studios are being forced to close by the pension fund of the band members of Genisis. I know this all sounds a bit far fetched but please read this letter and get in touch with Tom if you have any information that might help. This is NOT a joke posting.
I've been home to Ireland for a long weekend for my Stag Party and i'm just starting to recover now so I've not been posting for a bit. I'm still waiting on the photos from the weekend to come in for a posting so i'll have to get to that later. In the mean time here is another amusing video from YouTube.
After the judgement on the Apple v Apple case was given the BBC News Team quite naturally wanted to get an expert opinion on the outcome. They expected to see Guy Kewney. What they got was another man with a similar name who just happened to be sitting in the foyer waiting to be interviewed for a job. He thought it was an unusual interview but went with it just wanting to impress...check it out for yourself. A classic moment in TV.
It later emerged that the man was Guy Goma, a business studies graduate from Congo who was there for an interview for a high level IT job with the BBC. In a rush the producer of the news program grabbed the first 'Guy' he found in the foyer.
Mr Kewney, meanwhile, was still waiting in reception when he saw the taxi driver being introduced under his name. “Anybody would have been fascinated to see me introduced live on air, as the expert witness in the studio,” he wrote on his weblog. “Me? Not fascinated; astonished! What would you feel, if, while you were sitting in that rather chilly reception area, you suddenly saw yourself — not sitting in reception, but live, on TV?” He added that it was especially surprising because the man, who spoke with a French accent, looked nothing like him. “I’m not black. I’m not-black on a startling scale; I’m fair-haired, blue-eyed, prominent-nosed, and with the sort of pale skin that makes my dermatologist wince each time I complain about an itchy mole.”
Three women have been killed by alligators in florida in the last week. The attacks were not in the same area so it seems to be something more widespread. To put these events into perspective there have only been 18 alligator killings in florida in the last 58 years. So 3 in a week is highly unusual.
BBC NEWS World Americas The threat from Florida's alligators
As promised, here is the video of Lyons and Tigers I took sidestage last week. Great gig for them and they made a great impression on Dick Valentine from Electric Six. I remember he claimed at the gig that he was going to start a petition to have Liverpool John Lennon Airport renamed to Liverpool Lyons and Tigers Airport. He has my full support.
What a match! I had booked a table in the Sports Cafe to watch the game with 6 others. The atmosphere was electric! Great to be able to sit down and have your food and drink brought to you so you can give the game your full attention.
As it was the most watched sports event of the year so far on UK TV and I expect similar for Ireland I obviously don't need to say who won but if you have been living under a rock on the far side of the world somewhere (without internet access) then this is how it went...
An own goal from Jamie Carragher and a close range fumbling led to a goal from Dean Ashton to put West Ham 0-2. Painful. But then Cisse pulled one back to make it 1-2 at half time. Steven Gerrard brought it back to 2-2 after the break but Paul Konchesky's cross slipped into the top right hand corner to put West Ham back in front. West Ham had looked set to win the match, widely acclaimed as the most exciting FA Cup Final in recent years, until Steven Gerrard equalised for Liverpool in the dying minutes of normal time, making the score 3-3.
Neither team scored in extra time, and Liverpool won the penalty shoot-out 3-1. Awesome!
A great win to an excellent season. Should put us in a strong position to tempt some new players in the summer. Fingers crossed.
Really only went to this gig to support my friend Dave Lyons’s band ‘Lyons and Tigers'. But it turned out to be a really great gig by Dick. He’s doing a solo acoustic tour of the UK at the moment. In his own words he’s humbled by the fact that his band are not exactly having continued success in terms of chart success and is more friendly with the fans now he doesn’t have the crushing weight of a got complex.
Anyway for your viewing pleasure I captured some video of him and approximately half the small audience on stage singing ‘Gay Bar’.
As you can see it was in intimate gig with lots of audience participation. I’ve got some video of Lyons and Tigers too doing their classic ‘my pants are too tight’. I’ll get that uploaded soon.
Well it’s not exactly rocket science in terms of its script, but that’s to be expected from an action flick. However, I didn’t let any of that spoil my enjoyment of the film, and I did enjoy it! Except for… Tom Cruise crying! Jesus Christ! He cried a lot in this film. The whole ‘super-agent with a home life’ thing just doesn’t work for me. It’s unrealistic to think that these people go through life without meeting other people and having romantic engagements but people don’t go to see this kind of movie for happy families they expect to see a James Bond type of character who is a player or a tough guy like John McClane in Die Hard, who tried to have wife and happy family but it just couldn’t work out, you know what I’m getting at here yes?
Anyway, Tom, what’s with all the crying? I thought you were a super tough special agent? I can understand that you would be angry that someone was telling you that they were going to kill your wife but breaking down crying all the bloody time come on Tom get your shit together man! These ultimate bad guys are not eroded by your tears.
As always, see the movie for yourself. It’s pretty slick and has great stunts and as long as you can get over the happy family thing and the crying then you’ll probably enjoy it, like I did. The best of the three movies so far.
Oh, and if you wait till the end of the credits you will see a thank you to the Hanso Foundation. Those of you who are fans of Lost will know what this is about.
Yolanda and I sorted out the design of the wedding rings with Nicola the Saturday before last. Nicola made the engagement ring for me and did a great job so we went back to her for the wedding rings.
Nicola is based in Warwick so after sorting the rings and having a bite of lunch in a nice family owned Italian place, we went to Stratford-upon-Avon to see what it is like.
It’s a lovely place, but I don’t know if it was particularly bad because it was a nice day but it was absolutely heaving with tourists. No, of course I realise we were tourists ourselves but we only came because we were in the area anyway. I’m wondering if it’s that busy all the time? And how packed must it get during the summer?
Anyway, I’ve got some pics and stuff and I’ll post them here later when I get more time.
It’s been a good season for Liverpool. Third in the premiership is an improvement over last year, and we came very close to being second but Charlton let us down against Man-Utd.
It’s been another good run of wins to finish the season, especially the win over Chelsea. Just the FA Cup Final to play now to seal it off. They’ve already played West Ham a couple of weeks ago and won 1-2 but it wasn’t a pushover by any means so it should be an exciting final.
I’ve got a table booked in the sports café for myself and a few others to watch the match in comfort. Going out after for a long nights drinking on the Liverpool leg of my stag party. Should be good, especially if Liverpool win.
